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Strong's #5892: `iyr (pronounced eer)

or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):--Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛ı̂yr / ‛âr / ‛âyar

1) excitement, anguish

1a) of terror

2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)

2a) city, town

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1587a, 1615



Usage:

This word is used 1094 times:

2 Samuel 12:30: "David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance."
2 Samuel 12:31: "the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David"
2 Samuel 15:2: "unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said,"
2 Samuel 15:12: "the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered"
2 Samuel 15:14: "evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword."
2 Samuel 15:24: "had done passing out of the city."
2 Samuel 15:25: "the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes"
2 Samuel 15:27: "Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with"
2 Samuel 15:34: "But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant,"
2 Samuel 15:37: "David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem."
2 Samuel 17:13: "Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes"
2 Samuel 17:13: "ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until"
2 Samuel 17:17: "not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they"
2 Samuel 17:23: "him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself,"
2 Samuel 18:3: "ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succor us out of the city."
2 Samuel 19:3: "them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away"
2 Samuel 19:37: "I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother."
2 Samuel 20:6: "him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape"
2 Samuel 20:15: "him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all"
2 Samuel 20:16: "a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you,"
2 Samuel 20:19: "thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up"
2 Samuel 20:21: "deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said"
2 Samuel 20:22: "a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab"
2 Samuel 24:5: "and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad,"
2 Samuel 24:7: "to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to"
1 Kings 2:10: "with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David."
1 Kings 3:1: "daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building"
1 Kings 4:13: "is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars:"
1 Kings 8:1: "the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion."
1 Kings 8:16: "out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes"
1 Kings 8:44: "them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house"
1 Kings 8:48: "their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house"
1 Kings 9:11: "gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee."
1 Kings 9:12: "from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given"
1 Kings 9:13: "And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called"
1 Kings 9:16: "and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's"
1 Kings 9:19: "And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots,"
1 Kings 9:19: "that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which"
1 Kings 9:19: "had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired"
1 Kings 9:24: "Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house"
1 Kings 10:26: "and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king"
1 Kings 11:27: "and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father."
1 Kings 11:32: "tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which"
1 Kings 11:36: "always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put"
1 Kings 11:43: "with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son"
1 Kings 12:17: "But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over"
1 Kings 13:25: "the carcass: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt."
1 Kings 13:29: "prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury"
1 Kings 13:32: "the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass."
1 Kings 14:11: "Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls"









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